Identifier: amongpuebloindia00eick (find matches)
Title: Among the Pueblo Indians
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Eickemeyer, Carl Eickemeyer, Lilian Westcott, joint author
Subjects: Pueblo Indians
Publisher: New York, The Merriam company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the newly-repaired chain as we were de-scending a steep hill with a rocky incline on oneside and a high embankment on the other. Theonly thing to save us from being dashed to pieceswas to run the horses up the embankment, and indoing this we were almost thrown from our seats.Fully realizing that to continue the journey in thisway meant certain death to the whole party, thedriver returned to Taos for another team, and inabout an hour a fresh start was made with a pair ofsturdy grays. When about ten miles from Taos three Indiansrode toward us, driving a large bunch of cayuces.They stopped as they neared us, and, although wewere not familiar with one anothers language, theygave us to understand that they were Navajoes ontheir way to Taos to trade their horses with the In-dians there. They seemed friendly, and were muchinterested in the kodak we carried, not objecting tohave a picture taken. When driving through Rinconado a large shep-herd dog ran out of a house at the horses. Before 190
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IbomcwarD BounC*. he could do any harm, however, one of the six-shooters came quickly into service, and with a yelpthe dog whirled around in the road, like a pinwheel,and dropped dead at his masters feet. The man, a:^Iexican, on hearing the shot, had rushed out only tosee his dog breathe its last. He threw both hands inthe air and wildly shouted after us; but as our knowl-edge of Spanish was not very extensive, we couldonly by his actions gather the drift of his c(^nversa-tion. He was thoroughly excited, and his voice couldbe heard calling after us until the village was lost to sight. Arriving in Embudo, we boarded the little train,and after a pleasant trip down the caiion reachedSanta Fe. With the mail that had accumulated during ourabsence was a letter from a ^lexican lawyer, who hadbeen engaged by the Jew from whom we had hiredthe old horses to deliver the following notice: Santa Fe, Nkw :^Ikxro.Dear Sir:—You are respectfully informed thatthere has been placed in my hands for col

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